Most popular boys’ names in California, 1959

Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).

Rank	Name	Babies
1	David	7,628
2	Michael	7,467
3	Robert	6,510
4	John	6,174
5	Mark	5,304
6	James	5,025
7	Richard	4,460
8	Steven	3,443
9	William	3,206
10	Thomas	2,492
11	Daniel	2,372
12	Paul	2,189
13	Ronald	2,147
14	Kevin	2,144
15	Timothy	2,023
16	Jeffrey	1,986
17	Kenneth	1,982
18	Scott	1,931
19	Gary	1,928
20	Charles	1,906
21	Donald	1,869
22	Brian	1,842
23	Gregory	1,781
24	Mike	1,734
25	Joseph	1,674

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Anthony	1,485
27	Steve	1,472
28	Edward	1,344
29	Dennis	1,328
30	Larry	1,324
31	Christopher	1,312
32	Eric	1,228
33	Stephen	1,226
34	Craig	1,214
35	Douglas	1,211
36	Frank	1,200
37	Randy	1,171
38	George	1,106
39	Patrick	1,059
40	Peter	971
41	Jeff	943
42	Raymond	927
43	Keith	917
44	Jim	876
45	Bruce	866
46	Jerry	842
47	Joe	839
48	Terry	779
49	Danny	769
50	Matthew	725
51	Dale	710
52	Rick	706
53	Chris	699
54	Tim	698
55	Ricky	684
56	Alan	670
56	Russell	670
58	Tony	668
59	Tom	667
60	Jose	663
61	Greg	610
62	Jon	602
63	Arthur	587
63	Bill	587
65	Martin	584
66	Roger	580
67	Andrew	556
68	Phillip	544
69	Jeffery	541
70	Victor	535
71	Lawrence	518
72	Wayne	509
73	Randall	506
74	Jack	503
75	Gerald	491
76	Dave	480
77	Vincent	474
78	Carl	473
79	Manuel	471
80	Dan	465
81	Rodney	455
82	Don	454
83	Ralph	453
84	Henry	451
85	Curtis	450
86	Albert	449
86	Philip	449
88	Dean	438
89	Johnny	436
90	Glenn	414
91	Bryan	407
92	Bob	401
93	Walter	396
94	Jay	393
95	Gilbert	385
96	Ruben	376
97	Ron	375
98	Bradley	368
98	Leonard	368
100	Roy	365